452 CLXiii. PALMBJ). (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Calamus. 



GeotjpV. Seep. 437. 



40. C. travancoricus, Beddome mss. ; leaflets in distant opposite 

 groups of 3-5 narrowly oblanoeolate acuminate thin, costse 3 very slender 

 naked above sparsely setulose beneath, raohis and petiole very slender 

 armed with small straight and recurved spines, sheatli armed with slender 

 straight flattened prickles, spadix long sleader flagelliferous, iuflovescenoes 

 shorter than the membranous flat spathes, male decompound, fern, with 

 simple distichous spikes, upper spathes aod spathels tubular obliquely 

 truncate, spathellules short acute, calyx strongly striate, corolla estriate 

 twice as long. — Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 64. 



Deccan" Peninsula ; from Malabar to Travancore, WigM, Beddome. 



Stem very slender, scandent. Leaves 18-i4 in. ; loiiflets 4-6 by J-f in., broadest 

 about or above the middle and thence tapering to a capillary point, sbining above; 

 rachis scurfy when young ; petiole 4—6 in., dorsally rounded, margins acute much 

 compressed towards the base and there chiefly spiny. Spadix flagelliferous, 2-3 ft. ; 

 peduncle short, flattened, young white scurfy, margins shortly spiny. Lower 

 spathes tubular, compressed at the base, Ayith shortly spinous angles, produced into a 

 long membranous sheathing lamina; upper with unarmed tubes. Inflorescences about 

 2 in. long, mjles with spreading very slender branches bearing short fiexuous almost 

 capillary spikes of flowers \ in. long; fem. with simple recurved spikes and rather 

 larger flowers. — Rheede's figure is very good for its time. 



41. C. Kbeedel, Ghiff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 73 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 36, 83 ; leaflets in very distant groups of 3 on a long rachis armed 

 with scattered short recurved spines linear-lanceolate acuminate, fruiting 

 spadix with the flat open acute spathes longer than the ovoid dense clusters 

 of ellipsoid or oblong fruit. Dsemonorops Rheedii, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, 

 in. 830 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 100 ; Waif. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828.— iJ/ieeie 

 Hort. Mai. xii. t. 65. 



Malabab, Bheede. 



Of this species nothiug is known beyond Ebeede's rude plate, which is very infe- 

 rior to that of C. iravancorious, from which it differs in the much longer leaf the 

 leaflets being grouped in threes, one of each group apparently on one side of the rachis 

 and 2 on the other; four leaflets terminate the rachis. The fruits are represented as 

 I in. long by i in. broad and very shortly beaked. Beccari thinks that a Calamus 

 fruit sent from Malabar to Kew by Major Campbell exactly corresponds to Rheede's 

 figure. 



Gkoup VI. See p. 438. 



42. C. Kueg-elianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 338; leaflets many 

 equidistant elongate ensiform acuminate strongly 3-coBtate, margins 

 smooth unarmed above beneath pale and with a very few long bristles on 

 the lateral costse, petiole stout young scurfy back rounded with very stout 

 short recurved spines, sheath armed with very stout scattered long and 

 short spines, fem. spadix stout erect, spathes sparingly armed with stout 

 claws narrowly tubular truncate, fruiting branches 6-10 in. very stout, 

 spikes recurved, calvx pedioelled cupular with spreading lobes, fruit globose 

 black shining. Walp Ann. iii. 488, v. 831. 0. Wightii, Griff. Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 102, t. 216 0. 0. melanolepis, H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 237. 

 Dtemonorops melanolepis. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm iii. 331, t. 175, f. xi. ; 

 342 under 0. dioicus and tab. 116, f. xi. ; Walp. II. co. 481, and 829. 



NIL9HIBI Hills ; alt. 5-6000 ft., at Sisparah, Wight, &c. ; at Kaduvatam, 

 Gamble, 



